Introduction

This article expands on the basic tmux shell by moving from bash to zsh, adding the popular oh-my-zsh plugin and, adding the powerlevel10k theme for a speedier and modern looking shell.

Repository here https://github.com/commitconfirmed/tmux-p10k-for-neteng/

Try it out

Just click the “Open in GitHub Codespaces” button below! (github account required) Should see a terminal that looks similar to the below:

Installation

Follow the below step by step guide to set this up on your own machine:

• Install zsh (https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Installing-ZSH )
• Install Oh-my-zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/#install ) and follow the prompts
• Install the powerlevel10k theme and the zsh-autocomplete plugin

apt-get install zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/zsh-autocomplete
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-$HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/themes/powerlevel10k

Setup

• In your ~/.zshrc file, change the ZSH_THEME and set your plugins of choice

Builtin plugins available at https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Plugins if you want to further personally customize

ZSH_THEME="powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k"

plugins=(
    python
    golang
    zsh-autocomplete
    colored-man-pages
)

• There are some additional steps depending on your distribution in the zsh-autocomplete plugin to follow
• Restart zsh with source ~/.zshrc, this should now display the powerlevel10k configuration wizard which you can run through with your own personal preferences

If you do not like your powerlevel10k look, you can always run the configuration wizard again with p10k configure. My TMUX theme is aligned with the classic prompt style

• If you do not want to use TMUX then you are now good to go! Two more things I add for my own personal comfort are below

# Add to your .zshrc towards the bottom (but not on the last line)
# Make your prompt start at the bottom of the screen on startup
print ${(pl:$LINES::\n:):-}
# Cap the maximum number of lines for autocomplete to 6
zstyle ':autocomplete:*:*' list-lines 6

Add TMUX

Pretty much every modern linux distribution these days has tmux installed by default. If not simply install tmux using your distributions package manager.

To use my tmux configuration, simply copy and paste the contents of my .tmux.conf file into your home directories ~/.tmux.conf

Usage

TMUX should automatically start when you SSH into your host if you have copied my aliases.zsh file into your setup.

If not you can simply execute tmux -u attach -t COMMITCONFIRMED || tmux -u new -s COMMITCONFIRMED replacing “COMMITCONFIRMED” with whatever name you want at the bottom.

Keybindings I’ve used as a personal preference, you can change this if you want in your own .tmux.conf file to suit your own preferences. Mousewheel scrolling and clicking of the tabs also should work.

Acknowledgements

If you found this post useful, please show your support by sponsoring or at least giving a star to the below repositories who are the ones that made this possible:

• https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh
• https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete
• https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

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